This in-depth biography of Talk Talk founder & songwriter Mark Hollis is based on new interviews with friends, musicians, collaborators & record company executives, & extensive original research. Author Ben Wardle tells the full, fascinating story of one of the UK’s most enigmatic musicians from his earliest beginnings through to his untimely end.

In the first complete, in-depth biography of the Talk Talk leader, author and music industry insider Ben Wardle has interviewed scores of Mark Hollis’ friends, musicians, collaborators and record company executives to complete this important and substantial biography.

Drawing on extensive original research a perfect silence tells, for the first time, the full, fascinating story of one of the UK’s most enigmatic musicians from his earliest beginnings through to his untimely end.